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In this video, Tessa Fontaine talks about her life with the last traveling American sideshow, and her book, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death - Defying Acts

In this video, Tessa Fontaine talks about her life with the last traveling American sideshow, and her book, The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death - Defying Acts Read the full interview»

Tessa Fontaine's astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life - affirming journey of loss and self - discovery - through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.

Tessa Fontaine's astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life - affirming journey of loss and self - discovery — through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.

Not exact matches

Donald John Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination here Thursday, completing a stunning rise from billionaire sideshow to standard bearer of a major American party.

With the dramatic expansion of the Church on other continents, it became evident that American Catholicism, while not exactly a sideshow, is certainly not front stage centre.

But it should be a respectful opportunity for millions of Americans to hear the message of an important moral leader concerned about the «common good» of all Americans, without it being played out in the media as a divisive political sideshow.

What is for Romans a deeply felt form of self - expression, Americans view as a kind of sideshow entertainment, a vicarious experience to collect.

But any diplomatic hiccups this sideshow may have caused were soon smothered as attendees were treated to pledges from the US Vice-President Al Gore that the American telecommunications market would be opened to foreign competition.

Today, BookPage contributing writer Alice Cary shares details of her talk with Beth Macy, author of Truevine, a compelling account of two African - American brothers who were kidnapped by a circus promoter and displayed as sideshow freaks for decades.

Fontaine, who also eats fire and charms snakes, among other sideshow feats, spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders.

American involvement in Cambodia during the Vietnam War was often called a «sideshow.»

This area, developed by a young music promoter, Sol Bloom, concentrated on Midway Plaisance and introduced the term «midway» to American English to describe the area of a carnival or fair where sideshows are located.

2014 21 & Counting, The Painting Center, New York, NY To Leo, A Tribute from the American Abstract Artists, Sideshow, Brooklyn, New York Top Drawer, Imogen Holloway Gallery, Saugerties, New York Stargazing, curated by Catherine Cullen, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

by Alan Feuer Boston Globe, Nov. 16, Intimacy of attention paid in close up by Sebastian Smee Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 16, «Visions of an American Dreamland:» New book and Brooklyn Museum exhibition highlight Coney Island by Peter Stamelman The New York Times, Nov. 15, Amusement for Everyone by Ken Johnson Boston Globe, Nov. 11, Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe Rocked the Boat by Mark Feeney Crave, Nov. 11, Exhibit Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls by Miss Rosen Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Nov. 10, Q&A: Linda Roth WSFB / Better Connecticut, Nov. 9, Get Some Art History at this Local Stop by Kara Sundlun Take Magazine, November 2015, This MATRIX is Real by Janet Reynolds American Fine Art Magazine, November 2015, Radical Chick and Taylor Made by Jay Cantor Art New England, November 2015, Preview: Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls by Susan Rand Brown The Hartford Courant, Oct. 16, Gender - Bending «Warhol & Mapplethorpe» Exhibit At Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 13, At the Wadsworth Atheneum, an Old Building Gets New Life by Lee Rosenbaum Hartford Courant, Oct. 2, Artist Pokes Fun At «Great Chain Of Being» With New Wadsworth Exhibit by Susan Dunne The Economist, Oct. 1, Temple of Delight by Miles Unger Hartford Courant, Oct. 1, Renewed Atheneum a Cultural Tourism Spark Op - Ed by William Hosley Art in America, October 2015, Coney Island Forever by Jonathan Weinberg The Boston Globe, Sept. 19, European marvels await in Hartford at refurbished Atheneum by Sebastian Smee The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Wadsworth Atheneum Reopens To Line Of Visitors Saturday by Kristin Stoller The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Editorial: Wadsworth Atheneum Makeover is a Triumph Hyperallergic, Sept. 18, A Worthy Renovation for the Wadsworth Atheneum's European Art Galleries by Benjamin Sutton The New York Times, Sept. 17, Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation by Roberta Smith WNPR, Sept. 17, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Newly Renovated Galleries by Diane Orson The Art Newspaper, Sept. 16, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Sept. 13, Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Final Phase of Years - Long Renovation by Susan Dunne Fox CT, Sept. 11, The art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Up!

2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters: 2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, NYC 2011 Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson, NY 20th Anniversary Exhibit 2010 Brik Gallery Catskill, NY Painting, Drawing, Sculpture Crowell's Fine At Gallery Bedford, MA Recent Work 2008 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY 2007 Verdigris Art Hudson, NY Figurative 2006 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY War is Over 2004 The Painting Center NYC Recent Works on Paper 2003 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC 2002 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC 2001 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC AFA Gallery, Scranton PA Five Figure Painters Hudosn Opera House Hudson, NY Recent Works 1999 New York tudio School NYC 100 Drawings 1998 The Painting Center NYC Paulson / Eisenbeis Recent Paintings 1997 The Painting Center NYC Figure Painting and the Reasonable Lie Rising Tide Gallery Provincetown, MA Invitational 1996 Warren Street Gallery Hudson, NY Solo Show 1995 County College of Susssx Newton, NJ Solo Show 1994 Ute Stebich Gallery Lenox, MA 1993 The Bill Race Gallery NYC Three Emerging Artists Education:

Whether you see this as a blessing, curse, or sideshow farce, fame has become such a meta - subject and an American obsession that just the act of someone famous making a painting is thought to add kicky secret layers to the artist's image.

May 1, 2014 — May 1, 2015 American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio Exhibitions in Colleges and Museums, 2012 - 2015 Painting Center, «Wit», Curated by Joanne Freeman, New York, NY, 2013 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2013 - 2008 (Annual Exhibition) Paris CONCRET, «American Abstract Artists International», Paris, France, 2012 Parc Floral De Paris, «Le Salon des Realties Nouvelles», Invitational, Paris, France, 2012 The Ice Box, Crane Arts, «Abstraction to the Power of Infinity», Curated by Janet Kurnatowski, Philadelphia, PA, 2011 OK Harris Gallery, «American Abstract Artists 75 Anniversary», New York, NY, 2011 Galerie oqbo Deutche Kunstlerbund, «75th Anniversary American Abstract Artists International», Berlin, Germany, 2011 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, «75h Anniversary of the American Abstract Artists», Ithaca, NY, 2011 Sideshow Gallery, «Material Matters»: American Abstract Artists, Curated by Kat Griefen, Director AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2007 Florence Lynch Gallery, «Material Sign» (four person exhibition), Curated by Stephen Westfall New York, NY, 2006 RB Stevenson Gallery, «New Year Gallery Selections», San Diego, CA, 2003 2002, 2000 Art Resources Transfer, «A Conversation Exhibition», New York, NY, 2003 The Affordable Art Fair, «Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art», Pier 92, New York, NY, 2002 Klein Art Works, «Blotto» (four person exhibition), Chicago, Ill, 2000 Condesa Lawler Gallery, «Abstract Index», New York, New York, 1999 Art Initiatives, «Dealer's Choice», New York, NY, 1999 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, 1992, 1985 The Gallery at Hastings - on - Hudson, «The Legacy of the Abstract Expressionists», Hastings - on - Hudson, 1990 0scarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY, 1987, 1985 Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College, Philadelphia, PA, 1986 Ruggiero Henis Gallery, «Mixed Media», a sculpture exhibition Curated by Fredericke Taylor, New York, NY, 1989 John Davis Gallery, New York, NY, 1988 San Francisco Art Institute, «Four Painters», San Francisco, CA, 1981 «Art Today USA II» (organized by David Galloway, Teheran, Iran, 1976 Newport Harbor Art Museum, «Market Street Program», Los Angeles, CA, 1973 San Francisco Art Institute, «Drawing Invitational», San Francisco, CA, 1973

«To Leo, a Tribute, from American Abstract Artists,» Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

And while American politics have surely become a sideshow before, the 2016 presidential race is firmly in the running to be the most surreal political spectacle in memory.